They were trying to make the country better
I think the answer is: They weren't to happy with the idea of America ruling them since the whole point of helping the united states was to gain there independence.
<span>Sharecropping is a type of farming in which families rented small amounts of land from a landowner in return for some off their crop. In the South it was typically practiced by former slaves. Problems arouse between many landowners and blacks wanting to be free. The southern landowners usually were cheating the slaves out of money and other things they need. It was very unfair to many people.</span>
I believe his name was george fitzhugh
William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s Folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”
